Advertising and display device



Se t; 4, 1928'.

H. BROADLEY ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY DEVICE Filed y 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 gwuvz'nto o flflraav lle Sept. 4, 1928. 1,682,884

H. BROADLEY ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY DEVICE Filed y 26, 1927 :5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Sept. 4', 1928 H. BROADLEY ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY DEVICE aLLm/wu 6 #Bi'oadle 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 iiiilll "i1 IllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIII Filed y 26, 1927 Patented Sept. 4, 1928.

nnnnrrnoennia or WALKEBVILLE, ournnio,v CANADA.

ADVERTISING DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed Ma ne, 1927; Serial No. 194,450)

This inventionrelates to advertising de vices and particularly to thOSBzIClVGLtISLHg devices 1n the form of books having leaves:

which are automatically turned to display the matter suecesslvelyon successive leaves.

Tllhese display or advertising:devices have heretofore been so constructed: that while the leaves wouldturn 111 one direction one by one, the leaves are reversely turned one by one. hus, each leat'inust contain reading matter 1 not connected with the reading: mat;

ter on the next adjacent lea-tlias otherwise when the leaves were reversed, thereading matter would not read progressively but would be readreversely.

The; general object of the present invention is to provide display or advertising device in the form of a book inwhich the leaves will be turned from right tosleft in the usualsnian-i nerso that the leaves will be read: properly as the leaves of an ordihary book wouldbe read,

and provide means whereby all of the leaves may be simultaneously turnedin the reverse directionfto return the hook to its initial position. i l

A further object is to. provide a construc tion or this character in which the leaves are inversely turned very quickly so that after the book has been turned in its usual d1rectlon and the leaves swung overtones by one,

allof the leaves will besimultanelously turned to their initial positions rapidly and the operation of returning the leavesstarted over again; p a i Other objects have to do with the details of construction and arrangement. of parts wherebythese results are accomplished.

My invention is illustrated? in the accompanying drawingswherein i i liigure 1 issa top plan view of lnyqdisplay e ha ism; 1 a i Fig 2 is a side elevation of the mechanism with the base housingin; section; i

Fig 3 is a top plan view with the lower segmental plate broken away and the leaf spindles and supporting" shaft in section showing the book-in amiddle position;

Fig. dis a top plan view partly broken away; showing the position ofthe parts as the book is about to return to its initial position;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary top plan view with the book returned toan initial position; a

Fi {Sis a vertical section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3; 1

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary elevation of the supporting: plate and gearing;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary topp'lanview of the supporting plate and pinion engaging rack and pinion;

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary vertical: section through one of theleaf holding spindles and a portion of the lower supporting plate;

Fig. 10 is a section on the line 10-10 of Figure 9; i a

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary section through the base, showing the thrust hearing for 1notor shaft. 1 p i 1 Referring to these drawings it will be seen thatmy machine colnprlses a base which is concealed by a housing'and which contains the operatingmechanism. and a book or siinilitudei thereof, having a plurality of: leaves and mounted upon the base in an inclined posltion. The base consists of a base plate: 10 5 having an upstanding fiangell to which the housing 12 is connected. This housing: 12 is preferably formed oii sheet metal and entends around the base, there being axjioint 13 and the backof the housing being cut away at 14. This housing supportsthe plate from and to which plate brackets 17 are at- 8o 15 having a: circular opening 16 cut out tlieretached, over which the leaves of the book operateancl'whichaet toisupport these leaves.

Mounted upon the base lO is an electric motor 18. Theishaft 19 of this "motor bears against a thrust bearing- 20 carried the bracket 20*. Supported upon the motor, as

plate 22 at one endhas; a downwardly exby the saddle 21, is a plate 22-whichr supports the gearing to beherealter described; This passes. The shaft 19 carries upon it the worm 24: and mounted upon thelplate 22 and ex+ tending downward in bearings in the portion 23 thereof is a shaft Qatar-Wing upon 1 gear wheel26 which is engaged by the worm" it 2 1. The portion 23 is out away at 27 and disposed within this openingQTisl a pinion 28 carried upon the shaft 25. This pinion 28 engages with a gear wheel 29 carried by a short shaft 30 which extends through the" wheel 31 which rests upontheupper faee Off the plate 22. i Mounted rigidly upon plate 22, as shown in Figure 7, and mounted upon the upper end of this shaft 30 i's ai gear a the upper face of the plate 22' is an eccentric32 and surround ing this eccentric- 32 is an annular gear ring 33, the teeth of which are engaged by the gear wheel 31. This eccentric-is formed with a circular socket 34 adjacent its rear edge face and this coincides with a circular bearing or socket 35 formed in the plate 22. In

these sockets 34 and 35 the shaft 36 which ring 33 is a block4l which extends beyond the face of the plate 22 and is formed with a pair of outwardly projecting teeth 42, these teeth projecting beyond the edge face of the plate 22. A central stud 43 projects upward from this platennd rotatably mounted upon this stud 1s a star wheel 44 having ratchet teeth, shown as eight in number. This ratchet wheel is free to rotate around the stud 43 and is actuated by the pawl 38. This pawl 38 is moved by the pin 37 on the gear ring 33 which operates within the slot 39. Projecting upward from the face of plate 22 at one side of the block 41, is a stud 45, whose function will be later stated, and attached to. the

plate 22at its rear margin on the same side of the. late as the stud 45, is a stop plate 46.

The liooln-as it may be termed or the holder for the leaves thereof, consists of the longitudinally spaced plates 47 and 48. These area proximately segmental in form with roun ed edges 49 and passing through or e11- gaged with, the apices of these segmental plates, is the shaft 36, previously referred to, which projects beyond the plate 48 so that it may be inserted through the aperture 50 in the pawl 38 and into the sockets 34 and 35.

This shaft when so inserted will be inclined u wardand rearward. The margins of the pat-es 47 and :48 are thickened at 51 and swingingly mounted in these marginal portions 5l are the leaf spindles 52 a each spindle being formed in two sections h r by. serews53, a leaf .54 being clamped between these sections. duccd atits end; at 52' so asto fit into bean ingsformed in the plates .47 and 48 and each spindle at its lower end'beyond' theplate 48 carries upon it awpinion 55. These pmions 48.is swung transversely of the teeth 42.

Inasmuch as each pinion 55 is moving rela- I tive to the fixed teeth 42, the pinion will be rotated andthe corresponding leaf turned.

Just above each pinion 55 the spindle 52 the teeth of the star wheel 44 mesh.

is formed to provide a neck 56 with which These several necks 56, therefore, constitute a rack and as the star wheel-44 is rotated step by step, the star wheel will 'engage'this rack formed. by the necks 56 of spindles52 and will thus not to shift the plate 48 around the this slot is slidingl eld together i Each spindle is recenter formed by the shaft 36. The plate 48 is formed, adjacent onecorner, with a slot 57 which extends approximately radial to the center upon which the plate 47 turns. 1n mounted a detent 58 having a tooth 59. his detent when shifted inward in the slot 57 will be disposed in the path of movement of the pawl 38 and will be engaged by the tooth 40 of this pawl and when shifted outwardin the slot, will be out of thepath of movement of this pawl. The post 45 acts to shiftthis detent inward into the path of movement of the pawl while the block 46 actsas a cum to shift the detent outwardand, therefore, out of engagement with the tooth 40 on the pawl 38. 1 (The operation of this mechanism is as follows :-.-.The motor 18 drives the gear wheels 29 and 31 in a clockwise direction and, there fore, drives the gear ring 33 in a counterclockwise direction. Inasmuch as this gear ring is connected by means of the pin 37 with i the pawl 38, this pawl will be rotated at a variable speed in a counter-clockwise direction. Assumin that the plate 48 is swung over as far as 1t will goto the right as in Figure 5, then on each complete rotation of the gear ring 33 thepawl Wlll enga e one of the teeth 44 to shift it one step an this by the engagement with the heck 56 of the first spindle 52 of the series ofspindles will cause the plate 48 and, ofcourse, the plate 47,

move toward the: left one step. As these segments or plates 47 and 48 move toward the left one step, the teeth .42 will on age the pinion 55*of the corresponding spind e 52 and act to rotate this s indle in a direction a to cause the correspon ing leaf 54 to turn toward the right. With each step taken by the segmental plates 47 and 48 a new leaf will be turned from the right toward the left or, ini other words, will be opened, until eventuall y the segmental plate 48 will be in the position shown in Figure 4. 'As it reaches tlns position, the last leaf will have been turned and the detent or latch 58willcome in contact with the post45 and this wilt cause the detent to be shifted inward and engaged with or latched to the tooth 40 of the pawl 38. The next movement of this pawlin a counter-clockwise direction will act, there:

fore, to carry the segment 48 backwardto its initial position and as the segment 48 nears its initial position the lock or detent 58 will It will be seen that :so long as the motor operates, the'leaves of the book will be turned in their regularorder from therightftoward the left as the leaves of a book are ordinarily turned and that when all of the leaves have been turned, the book as a whole will be shifted backwardto itsinitial position rapid ly and again the leaves will, be turned one by one.

This mechanism is very compact, simple,

a While I have illustrated alconstruction which 1 have found tobe thoroughly efl'ece live in praceice, I do not wvish to be limited to the deta ls shown as it siobvlous that many.

changes might be made therein without departing from the spirit ,ofthe invention as dcfinedin the appended claims. a

I claim i 1. A display mechanism including the similitude of a book comprising a plurality of rotatablespindles and leavescarried there by and motor operated means causing the successive partial rotation Of the spindles in one direction to thereby turn the leaves one by one in one direction and then causing the immediate reversal of all of the leaves to an initial position.

2. A display mechanism including an oscillatably mounted support, a plurality of individually oscillatable spindles carried thereby and bodily oscillatable therewith, each spindle carrying a leaf, motor operated means causing the step by step movement of the support in one dircetion and the successive partial rotation of the spindles in one direction and then causing the support to return to its initial position in one step and the coincident reverse movement of the spindles and leaves to their initial posit-ion.

3. A display mechanism including the similitude of a book, an oscillatably mounted support therefor, a plurality of rotatable spindles mounted in the support and oscillatable therewith, and leaves carried by the respective spindles, and motor operated means shifting the support in one direction step by step and at each step turning a leaf from an initial position to a display position and then automaticall returning the support in one step to its initial position and simultaneously turning the leaves from their display position to the initial position.

t. A display mechanism including a base, a support oscillatably mounted upon the base, a plurality of spindles mounted in the support and carrying leaves, each of said spindles having a pinion, a base having means adapted to engage the successive pinions and rotate them as the support is swung in either direction, and motor operated means for causing the step by step movement of the support in one direction from an initial position to a final position and then causing the immediate return of the support to its initial position.

5. A display mechanism including a base,

a supportposcillatablymounted thereon, a, "ac-l; mountedupon tbeisupport a plurality of upstandingspindles carr ed by thesupport and carrying leaves, each of said spindles h av ing a pinion, a member fixed upon the have M and having a tooth engageable with successive pinions as the support is swung in either direc-tion to thereby rotatethe pinions, a gear wheel engaging the rackon saidisupporh mo-e tor operated means for rotating the gear wheelstep by step to carry the support in one direction from an initial po ition andincans acting :uitomatically when the support has. fully moved in one direction to shiftthe sup.- port in the opposite directionlo an initial positionin one step. i v

6. A display mechanismincluding: a base,

an oseillatable support mounted thereon and having a plurality of upstanding spindles; leave; mounted upon the spindles, each spindle having a pinion, amotor, aratchet wheel," a rack forming part of thesupportand with 1 whiclrtlie ratchet wheel is adapted to engage, a rotatable pawl engaging the ratchet wheel, once on each rotation of the pawl, to thus cause the step by step movement of the ratchet Wheel and the step by step movement of the support in one direction, a motor for operating said pawl, a shiftable member carried by the support, means for shifting said member into engagement with the pawl when the support has moved in one direction to its full extent to thus cause the pawl by engagement with the shiftable member to carry the support in a reverse direction to the initial position, and means acting automatically to dis engage the shiftable member from the pawl when the support has been shifted to its initial position.

7. A display mechanism including a base, an oscillatable segmental support having a depending stub shaft and having a plurality of upstanding spindles, each carrying a leaf, each spindle extending below the support and carrying at its lower end a pinion, the several pinions being separated fromeach other, a fixed eccentric carried on the base and having a socket adjacent its rear edge to receive said stub shaft, a gear ring carried by and rotatable around the eccentric, a pawl freely rotatable on the stub shaft-and resting on the eccentric, the pawl being longitudinally slotted and the ring having a pin engaging in the slot to thereby rotate the pawl around its center at a variable speed, a member fixed on the base and having a tooth engaging successively with the pinions on the several spindles, a ratchet wheel above said member and engaging with said spindles to turn the support,

the pawl on each revolution engaging a tooth of the ratchet wheel to thereby turn it one step and shift the support one step in the same direction, a motor operatively geared to the gear ring to drive it, means acting auto matically to engage the support directly with said pawl when the support has been shifted in one direction to the full extent of its move ment whereby to cause the pawl to return the support to an initial position,and means au-- 8. A display mechanism including a base,

an oscillatable segmental support havin a depending stub shaft and having a plurafity of upstanding spindles, each carrying a leaf, each spindle extending below the support and carrying at its lower end a pinion, the several pinions being separated from each other, a fixed eccentric carried on the base and having a socket adjacent its rearedge to receive said stub shaft, a gear ring carried by and rotatable around the eccentric, a pawl freely rotatable on the stub shaft and resting on the eccentric, the pawl being longitudinally slotted and the ring having a pin engaging in the slot to thereby rotate the pawl around its center at a variable speed, a member fixed menace on the base and having a tooth engaging successivelywith the pinions on the several spinupon the support, means on the base engaging with said slide to cause the slide to move inward into direct enga ement with the pawl when the support has n shifted in one direction to the full extentof its movementto thereby cause the pawl to return the support to an initial position, and means mounted,

upon the base and engagingvsaid slide and shiftingit out of engagement with the pawl when the support has been returned to its initial position. i a

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

HENRY BROADLEY. 

